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	Read about Censorship at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Censorship and learn about Censorship here!
		Censorship does not attempt to cover up material made by an organization, but rather to restrict or abolish defined types of material produced by private citizens.
		evolution has been questioned by many since it contradicts the beliefs of their religion and some textbooks were even requested to include disclaimers at the beginning of the book about it.
		Censorship, unlike acts or policies of sanitization, refers to a publicly set standard, not a privately set (or government-enforced but unannounced) standard.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Censorship (1346 words)

	The Atheist Alliance Web Center About
		Authoritarian religion, aided by the apathy of the voting public, threatens to envelope us in ignorance, intolerance and tyranny.
		For all these reasons, the Alliance is affiliated with OABITAR (Objectivity And Balance In Teaching About Religion), which publishes Freethought Across the Centuries, by Gerald A. Larue (Humanist Press).
		Atheist Alliance International (AAI) is an organization of independent religion-free groups and individuals in the United States and around the world.
	www.atheistalliance.org /aai/index.html (1409 words)

	Books about Religious Conservatism in the United States
		Judd Owen, Religion and the Demise of Liberal Rationalism: The Foundational Crisis of the Separation of Church and State, University of Chicago Press, 2001.
		James Hutson, ed, Religion and the New Republic: Faith in the Founding of America, Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
		Jeffrey K. Hadden and Anson Shupe, eds, Prophetic Religions and Politics, Paragon House, 1986.
	polaris.gseis.ucla.edu /pagre/right.html (8575 words)

	www.njweedman.com
		Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
		Standard descriptions of the religion emphasize the use of marijuana in cultic ceromonies designed to bring the believer closer to the divinity and to enhance unity among believers.
		Africans used marijuana as a medicine and as sacraments in native religions.
	www.njweedman.com (1757 words)

	On Bahai Liberty
		Given the pervasive censorship and manipulation of thought and discussion on the previously existing newsgroup, soc.religion.bahai, praised in The American Baha’i, many Baha’is and non-Baha’i observers believed such a newsgroup was essential for unfettered discussion about Baha’i matters of concern.
		H-Net’s digital reprinting brought home for insightful observers of the victimization of fellow Baha’is, during the purges and pogroms of the 1970s and after, the inescapable realization that, far from an aberration, the same pervasive fanaticism and censorship had indeed been experienced by Sohrab and earlier Baha’is in virtually the same form and manner.
		Another major incident, publicly documented in the newsgroup databases of Google and other search engines, was the proposal of an open and unmoderated newsgroup, talk.religion.bahai.
	www.reformbahai.org /on_bahai_liberty.htm (1577 words)

	What is Censorship?
		Censorship is no more acceptable for being practiced in the name of religion than for national security (which is certainly an acceptable secular substitute for religious rationales in the 20th Century).
		To understand censorship, and the impulse to censor, it is necessary to strip away the shock epithet value that is attached to the word at first utterance.
		In the 20th Century, censorship was achieved through the examination of books, plays, films, television and radio programs, news reports, and other forms of communication for the purpose of altering or suppressing ideas found to be objectionable or offensive.
	www.gilc.org /speech/osistudy/censorship (1913 words)

	Bowdlerization and Self-Censorship in Hardy and Other Victorian Fiction
		PVA: No. Religion or phrasing considered offensive to religioous readers were an object of censorship in certain periodicals.
		Sometimes, the censorship removed important information the reader might need to undertand the actions of certain cgharacters.
		Fior example, the passage that Hardy has excised from Chapter 18 in Good Words, "The Night after the Arrival," might be a "relatively innocuous" (Nemesvari 360) expression, but it is necessary to the reader's understanding why John Loveday opposes Matilda's marrying his brother, Bob.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/hardy/pva150.html (643 words)

	firstamendmentcenter.org: Welcome to the First Amendment Center Online
		Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
		A look back at the seminal Supreme Court case that established First Amendment protection for attorney ads.
	www.firstamendmentcenter.org (643 words)

	The long history of censorship
		Censorship reforms were started in a single decade of tolerance, from 1855 to 1865 during the reign of tsar Alexander II, when the transition was made from legislation on pre-censorship to the punitive system based on legal responsibility.
		The most famous case of censorship in ancient times is that of Socrates, sentenced to drink poison in 399 BC for his corruption of youth and his acknowledgement of unorthodox divinities.
		Yet this was also an age of strict press censorship in countries such as Japan; their first daily newspaper (1870), the Yokohama Mainichi, born in a time when arrests of journalists and suppression of newspapers were all too common.
	www.beaconforfreedom.org /about_project/history.html (4932 words)

	irish.women
		The native Irish were governed by the Penal Laws, an apartheid code, which forbade them to own land or horses, practice their religion, participate in government or educate their children.
		Both states are extremely conservative in social legislation, and both use repressive measure and censorship to try and maintain the status quo.
		Irish feminists agitated for reforms in the welfare system for single mothers, for access of women to equal jobs, pay and education, and for legal divorce and contraception.
	www.etext.org /Politics/INAC/irish.women (4932 words)

	Reason: Sex, Politics, Religion, and Egypt: Want to know how complicated the Mideast can be? Go to the movies
		That film attempted to mix sex, politics, and religion, with the result that its completion has been delayed for years due to a combination of budget and censorship problems.
		He refuses to let his artist wife show her work or to allow his son see any movies; indeed, the father fasts for religious reasons some 200 days a year.
		One result is of his fanaticism is that his unhappy wife has become involved in an adulterous affair.
	www.reason.com /links/links101404.shtml (1060 words)

	Jeffrey Asher Dawson College Ottawa Citizen Dec 2001 Feminist academic thuggery CPF / The FatherhoodCoalition
		Long after the defeat of totalitarianism, radical feminism indoctrinates students to discriminate by sex and race and enforces censorship and repression on what is acceptable to think and feel.
		Radical feminists continue to win their government-subsidized war against men, heterosexuality, the family, religion, merit, objectivity, justice and reality.
		In 2000, Canadian universities listed two courses on men, neither taught that year, and more than 1,617 feminist courses, offered in programs from undergraduate to PhD degrees.
	www.fatherhoodcoalition.org /cpf/newreadings/2001/JAsher_Ottawa_Citizen_Dec01.htm (1060 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly Censorship board on a banning spree
		According to Abdel-Kader, the censorship taboos are religion, sex and national unity.
		We are in discussion with the censorship office, trying to learn the reasons and policies behind all of this banning."
		"Since last May, censorship has requested more than 450 books for revision, which is more than they have requested in the past 10 years," AUC Press Director Mark Linz told the Weekly.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1999/421/eg3.htm (677 words)

	Censorship pervades baha'i cyberspace
		Censorship and disinformation pervade bahai cyberspace and has since the advent of the Internet.
		Talk.religion.bahai remains the only place of online discussion that NEITHER fundamentalist nor liberal prejudice and passion can censor, though often manipulated in other ways....
		Discussion on BeliefNet's Baha'i Debate and Talisman9 is no exception.
	www.fglaysher.com /bahaicensorship/censored.htm (153 words)

	SYDNEY LIBERTARIANISM & THE PUSH - AJ Baker 1975
		Thus, while some of the views and arguments of Libertarians have been very Andersonian (support for empiricism and objective inquiry, rejection of religion, conventional morality and censorship), the distinctive features of the Libertarian line, not to speak of its irreverent, downtown bohemianism, is in no obvious way Andersonian.
		Instead the Society functioned informally but effectively, with decisions made by unanimous consent instead of by voting, and with every Libertarian being a member of the Committee and the one office-bearer (for convenience) being the Secretary, who was first June Wilson, then Roelof Smilde, and then for a long stretch George Molnar.
		At the University from 1952 meetings were held dealing with topics which set the pattern for most later meetings: morals, sex, religion, anarchism, Henry Miller, Marx, Freud, Reich.
	www.takver.com /history/aia/aia00026.htm (153 words)

	The History of the Revolt of the Netherlands
		The Netherlands had remained free from it until the government of Charles V.; their bishops exercised the spiritual censorship, and in extraordinary cases reference was made to foreign courts of inquisition; by the French provinces to that of Paris, by the Germans to that of Cologne.
		All this is accomplished for him by religion.
		By these the reading of the Evangelists and Apostles; all open or secret meetings to which religion gave its name in ever so slight a degree; all conversations on the subject, at home or at the table, were forbidden under severe penalties.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/6/7/8/6780/6780-h/6780-h.htm (20496 words)

	THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF HUMANISM AND ITS ROLE IN UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISM
		Humanists are very interested in church/state separation, and are active in political, civic, and legal efforts to stop sectarian encroachment in our civil liberties, the establishment of religion in public institutions, the censorship of ideas and knowledge, and attacks on our freedom of conscience.
		Humanists are philosophical naturalists--they believe that what is studied by science is all that there is. We have no reliable knowledge about the supernatural and cannot rely on it.
		In particular, some religious theists claim that they are humanists--for example, Christian humanists or Catholic humanists--because they claim that their religions are humanitarian, that they are therefore humanitarians and, thus, that they are therefore humanists.
	www.unibadan.humanists.net /history_and_philosophy_of_humani.htm (20496 words)

	Dell Gines » The Tyranny of the Minority
		As for the ACLU, they are degrading our society by uplifting an individuals right to not be offended over the majorities rights to express themselves without censorship.
		That should have read, “As for the ACLU, they are degrading our society by uplifting an individual’s DESIRE to not be offended over the majorities rights to express themselves without censorship.
		Second, while it is true that one can practice one’s religion privately, public expression of freely practiced religion has been shown to benefit society immeasurably.
	www.dellgines.com /?p=92 (5724 words)

	Wired News: To Be Young, Cyber, and Free
		Peacefire is a revolutionary space where teenagers from all over the world can gather to form a political community, share values, fight for political rights, and support and defend one another from continuous assaults on their freedom, judgment, and dignity by journalists, politicians, some parents, educators, and some members of organized religion.
		Peacefire not only provides him with a community, but also with information on disabling censorship technology; the history of individual blocking programs; legal rights and precedents; writings, arguments, and rulings relevant to free speech and the rights of children in the digital age; and anti-censorship graphics to download and display.
		Haselton founded Peacefire because the embattled anti-censorship groups existing on the Net were slow to grasp the implications of the "quick fix" censorship blocking systems (like Cybersitter, Net Nanny, and Cyber Patrol) on freedom of speech and the lives of minors.
	www.wired.com /news/politics/0,1283,3229,00.html (1582 words)

	First Place
		In the opinion of the court, Justice Roberts elaborated by saying, "Such a censorship of religion as the means of determining its right to survive is a denial of liberty protected by the First Amendment." In response to a similar case, Justice William O. Douglas wrote in Fowler v.
		The Amish believed that Wisconsin's compulsory school-attendance law threatened their religion, the integrity of their community, and ultimately, their salvation.
		The Court declared this permit system unconstitutional because states do not have the authority to grant a license to a group exclusively based on religion.
	www.firstfreedom.org /programs/1stplaceora.html (681 words)

	Hansen v. Ann Arbor Public Schools, No. 02-72802 (E.D.Mich. December 5, 2003)
		Betsy Hansen, a student a Pioneer and a member of the Pioneers in Christ student religion club, attempted to either be allowed to participate in the panel herself or name a clergyman sharing her view that homosexuality is not a valid lifestyle to the panel.
		Although her request to have her viewpoint represented on the panel was rejected, school officials offered Hansen and two other students an opportunity to speak at the school’s general assembly during diversity week on the subject of “what diversity means to me.” All the students’ speeches were subject to review by the school’s administration.
		Addressing the free speech claim, the court found that there were two distinct incidents at issue: denial of representation on the panel and censorship of assembly speech.
	www.nsba.org /site/doc.asp?TRACKID=&VID=2&CID=468&DID=32515 (681 words)

	Tolerance For All - Links to Our Friends
		Formerly called the Chicago Center for Religion and Science, Zygon focuses on the cooperative potential of religion and science in improving human life and bringing peace and justice in the world.
		Wheaton College, the alma mater of the Rev. Billy Graham, is located in Illinois and is considered by many the spiritual and intellectual center of American evangelical Protestantism.
		The Nashville-based First Amendment Center offers guidelines, updates and curriculum packages on such issues as prayer in public school, school-voucher programs and censorship.
	www.toleranceforall.org /links.htm (868 words)

	agi idup agi ngelaban - Towards A "Kerajaan Islam Hadhari" That Practices Censorship
		Any comment you make on PAS or UMNO will be taken to be attacks on religion.
		It is an analogy that is false, offensive and intolerant towards (the) religion (of Islam"
		Sigh...ppl like you will fail the Islam religion instead of bringing it to greater heights.
	pejuang.menj.org /archives/national/towards_a_kerajaan_i.php (527 words)

	Hard Hitting Petition Rocks Foundation of Evangelical “Family Values” : SF Indymedia
		All Text Including, but not Limited to: Terrorism - War Crimes - Human Rights Violations - Sexual Crimes Against Children - Censorship of Speech and Religion - Animal Cruelty - Murder - Suppression and Cruelty of Women - Rape - Incest - Slavery - Torture and all Crimes Against Humanity.
		This Proclamation to Congress Clearly Addresses the Extraordinary Reality that Churches and Synagogues of All Religions across our Great Nation are Completely Tax Exempt - while their Religious Handbooks are riddled with Demands of Criminal Activity.
		This Petition - Firmly Protecting America’s most Important Foundational Blocks - Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion - yet not Freedom of Taxation - as according to the - In God We Trust Protection Act:
	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1702034 (527 words)

	Etty
		Yet they ~ along with Novalis Publishers in the UK and Canada ~ put out this tremendous volume that features true spirituality, a spirituality not connected to organized religion by any stretch of the imagination.
		By the time Etty dies at Auschwitz on November 30, 1943, you mourn her death as you would mourn the loss of a friend.
		That censorship may have "cleaned up" Hans and Sophie's lives and eradicated their shortcomings (and in so doing, whitewashed the Scholl family's existence as a whole).
	www.deheap.com /etty.htm (726 words)

	sisu: First they came for CNN
		Then they came for Fox and Friends, and we switched into double-standard mode, desperately trying to fit their round "We report, you decide" slogan into the square hole of their self-censorship.
		As you point out in your most enlightening article "First They came for CNN," the tenets of Islam are a religion of tolerance that in many quarters is currently under the control of people like those who ruled Christianity at the time of the Spanish Inquisition.
		More than that, the Quran says there is "no compulsion in religion." Which suggests that nobody should be compelled to treat Islamic tenets as sacred.
	sisu.typepad.com /sisu/2006/02/first_they_came.html (1660 words)

	@ccess CENSORSHIP - History and Definitions
		Censorship in the U.S. When the American colonists drafted laws before 1776, they borrowed from English precedents regarding personal rights and liberties but went far beyond Great Britain in the fields of freedom of religion, speech, press, and assembly.
		Among such provisions are those that prohibit interference with a person's home, family, privacy, or correspondence, and those that provide for the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, opinion, and expression without interference.
		Rating countries on a scale ranging from 1 (most free) to 15 (least free), a survey published by Freedom House in the late 1980s disclosed that 60 countries comprising about 2 billion people enjoyed the highest degrees of freedom (1-5).
	www.wam.umd.edu /~gjbush/history.html (1660 words)

	Political correctness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, critics of political language choice argue the new terms are often awkward, euphemistic substitutes for the original stark language concerning differences such as race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion and political views.
		In a bit of tit-for-tat inversion, it is also occasionally employed by leftists to deride what they regard as clichéd or disingenuous conservative themes such as "family values," "compassionate conservatism" or "God and country".
		Tongue Tied - documents alleged ongoing censorship of politically incorrect speech or expression in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Political_correctness (4750 words)

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